India-French ties a force for stability in the world, says PM

India and France elevated their relationship to a 'special global strategic partnership' on Tuesday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met French President Emmanuel Macron.

Political leaders, officials must foster fraternity: SC

Political leaders must foster fraternity and high public office-holders should live up to the ideals of the Constitution, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.

The court was hearing a petition highlighting instances of Chief Ministers, senior bureaucrats, and police officers making public statements that stigmatise entire communities, legitimise discriminatory governance, and erode public confidence in the state's commitment to equal citizenship.

The new world disorder, from rules to might

The post-war order, born in San Francisco in 1945, was built on the conviction that law could restrain power, that institutions could discipline states, and that sovereignty was not a privilege granted by the strong but a right inherent in all nations.

As the rules-based order erodes. raw power is beginning to reshape the global system

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Front-of-package labelling helps consumers to choose health foods

In a further instalment of its continuing engagement with regulating processed food products, the Supreme Court of India has, once again, staked out for the right of citizens to health. In a recent judgment, a Bench directed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to consider introducing mandatory front-of-package warning labels on packaged food pro-ducts high in sugar, salt and saturated fat.

The 1946 Royal Navy revolt: solidarity amid sharpening polarisation

February 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the Royal Indian Navy's (RIN) revolt of 1946, a brief armed uprising that began at the naval barracks in Bombay and quickly spread to the streets, gaining popular support.

Eighty years later, one must reassess the significance of this short-lived uprising amid these turbulent years, where South Asia is experiencing a worsening of inter-communal relations.

India, France renew defence cooperation for 10 years, call to boost military partnership

India and France renewed their defence cooperation agreement for another 10 years on Tuesday at the sixth India-France Annual Defence Dialogue in Bengaluru.

Global cooperation is crucial to tackle Al bias and risks, says PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that artificial intelligence (AI) now stood at "a civilisation-al inflection point" of expanding human capability but would test social foundations if left unguided. He said the technology must be used to accelerate global development while remaining deeply human-centric.

Two digital initiatives to boost health Al ecosystem launched

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda on Tuesday launched two digital health initiatives SAHI (Secure Al for Health Initiative) and BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) during the India AI Impact Summit.

'AI Mission 2.0 will have more GPUs for common compute'

The IndiaAI Mission will add 20,000 more graphics pro-cessing units (GPUs) to the government-run "common compute" cluster, which is open for local firms, re-searchers and academia to use, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at a briefing at the Al Impact Summit.

India gets first private sector helicopter final assembly line in Kolar

Prime Minister Narendra on Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday virtually inaugurated the Tata Advanced Systems' Final Assembly Line (FAL) for the Airbus H125 helicopter.

The facility in Vemagal, Kolar district in Karnataka, is India's first private-sec-tor helicopter FAL. This is the first time India's private sector will undertake the manufacturing, integration, testing and maintenance of a sophisticated rotary-wing platform.

Iran and U.S. agree on 'guiding principles' for future discussions

Iran's Foreign Minister Ab-bas Araghchi said on Tues-day that a general agreement on guiding principles for future talks has been reached in the second round of discussions with the U.S. in Geneva.